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6 papers

cs.LG2026

DICE: Entropy-Regularized Equilibrium Selection for Stable Multi-Agent LLM Coordination

Yi Xie, Zhanke Zhou, Chentao Cao +2

Multi-agent large language model (LLM) systems often fail to reliably outperform a single strong model equipped with best-of-N sampling. We argue that a core source of this instabi…

cs.LG2026

The Easy, the Hard, and the Learnable: Confidence and Difficulty-Adaptive Policy Optimization for LLM Reasoning

Zhanke Zhou, Xiangyu Lu, Chentao Cao +4

RL with verifiable rewards can substantially improve LLM reasoning, yet standard GRPO-style training often treats easy, hard, and learnable questions alike through uniform sampling…

cs.AI2026

AlphaApollo: A System for Deep Agentic Reasoning

Zhanke Zhou, Chentao Cao, Xiao Feng +15

We present AlphaApollo, an agentic reasoning system that targets two bottlenecks in foundation-model reasoning: (1) limited reasoning capacity for complex, long-horizon problem sol…

cs.LG2026

Reasoned Safety Alignment: Ensuring Jailbreak Defense via Answer-Then-Check

Chentao Cao, Xiaojun Xu, Bo Han +1

As large language models (LLMs) continue to advance in capabilities, ensuring their safety against jailbreak attacks remains a critical challenge. In this paper, we introduce a nov…

cs.LG2025

From Debate to Equilibrium: Belief-Driven Multi-Agent LLM Reasoning via Bayesian Nash Equilibrium

Xie Yi, Zhanke Zhou, Chentao Cao +3

Multi-agent frameworks can substantially boost the reasoning power of large language models (LLMs), but they typically incur heavy computational costs and lack convergence guarante…

cs.LG2025

Noisy Test-Time Adaptation in Vision-Language Models

Chentao Cao, Zhun Zhong, Zhanke Zhou +4

Test-time adaptation (TTA) aims to address distribution shifts between source and target data by relying solely on target data during testing. In open-world scenarios, models often…